fact that the place is shown on the map by
Randall (p. 206) under the name of
_Herwahgah_.
Merriam lists _rliiken-pets_ as _oleeken_
and says that it is a "former village ...
about 3 miles below Blue Creek ... named
from Oleeken Bar, at the upper end of
which it is located." On his "Geographic
List" of Yurok villages he describes
_Hawwagah_ as an "old camp" but on his
later list entitled "Polikan (Yurok)
Tribes, Bands and Settlements" he has
interpolated in ink "former village."
_Tawchter_ he describes as a "village on
north bank of Klamath right across from
_Hawwagah_."
The weight of the evidence favors
certainly two and probably three villages.
Waterman ascribes (p. 207) 2 houses to
_rliiken-pets_, to which may be added
another 2 for _tawchter_. Across the river
_howego_ may also have had 4 houses.
24. rnr C P. 237. Waterman says this town was being
abandoned before the coming of the whites
but it is shown on Kroeber's map (p. 9)
and also on Randall's map of 1866. Hence
it must have persisted for at least twenty
years after the white invasion.
25. nagil C See no. 28.
26. ayol C See no. 28.
27. awpaw P See no. 28.
28. torah P Pp. 238 and 207. Informants of Waterman
recalled 4 houses at _nagil_, settled
by the great-grandmother of Weitschpek
Frank. The latter was a man of
approximately forty years of age when
Waterman saw him in 1909. Hence, allowing
twenty-five years per generatio
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